Index of wage and salary earnings: New Classification of Sectors is adopted in the statistics and new database tables are published

Date of change:

Information about the change

The Classification of Sectors 2023 is adopted in the index of wage and salary earnings. Data according to the new Classification of Sectors will be published starting from 31 May 2024. The production of data according to the previously used employer sector division will be discontinued at a time announced later.

Of the sectors in use so far in the index of wage and salary earnings, the budget economy of central government and local government will remain unchanged in the new sector division and the private sector corresponds to non-financial corporations and financial and insurance corporations. In addition to these three sectors, data on the development of the earnings level will be published according to eight other sectors. Of the old sectors, the others sector will later be discontinued.

Data in accordance with the Classification of Sectors 2023 will be published in new database tables according to the base year 2015. The initial level of the indices of the sub-sectors of local government, such as wellbeing services county administration, is the same in the first quarter of 2023 as in the entire local government sector.

New database table, identifier and name

Further information

Jukka Tapio
Senior Statistician
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